Results for: books tagged ‘Pioneers’
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan: Richard Nelson
On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men, his voice rising in stirring peroration: 'Let us all be new men! Born today! This minute! And with ... More
George Mallory: David Robertson
Celebrated in his time as 'the rarest spirit of his generation', George Mallory vanished on the 8th of June 1924 in a third desperate attempt to climb Everest. Seventy-five years ... More
Kazan on Kazan: Jeff Young
Elia Kazan is the director responsible for films such as On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata! and East of Eden - to name but a few. With ... More
In the Blue Light of African Dreams: Paul Watkins
Flying with the Lafayette Squadron and winning the Croix de Guerre, Charlie Halifax is shot down in 1918 and badly wounded. He deserts but is recaptured and exiled into the ... More
Founding Brothers: Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Brothers is an illuminating, Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic: Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington. During the 1790s ... More
Coronation Everest: Jan Morris
'Exquisite, powerful . . . I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon WinchesterThis classic account offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most ... More
The Lunar Men: Jenny Uglow
Led by the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham were a group of eighteenth-century amateur experimenters who met monthly on the Monday night nearest to the full moon. ... More
Eric Gill: Fiona MacCarthy
Eric Gill was perhaps the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving.'A wonderfully detailed ... More
Rifles: Mark Urban
As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving ... More
The Dust Diaries: Owen Sheers
When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by ... More
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